… his schoolboy friends with inspired recitations of Homer, Pindar or Plotinus (Holmes 32-33 ). Pantisocracy: ‘the experiment of human Perfectibility’ In 1791, in the midst of the revolutionary fervour that fired up the imagination of … and a Rousseauesque belief in the regeneration of man through nature. They enthusiastically devised a plan to set up ‘an experimental society, living in pastoral seclusion, sharing property, labour, and self-government equally among all its … Religion and a small Company of chosen Individuals, and formed a plan, as harmless as it was extravagant, of trying the experiment of human Perfectibility on the banks of Susquahannah ; where our little Society, in its second Generation, …